They abolished it a while back and I haven't heard anything about it since. Is it like the supreme court where corporations can do whatever they want but they act relatively normally to prevent outrage
It was Verizon. They countered the bad press by featuring first responders on their commercials. Real dystopian stuff
Just like Amazon features black women as small business owners on their ads.
Most of them already do throttle based on how much you are paying. For example if someone uses something like Straight Talk, or TracFone, and their considered last in line when the tower is congested. It goes 1. PostPaid 2. Prepaid 3. MVNOs like straight talk etc.
the net neutrality debate was allowed to become so prominent because it was a battle between different interests within capital. ISPs of course want to charge companies a toll for transmitting their data. Some of those companies, including Netflix and Google, who would have been charged, of course don't want that, and so utilized front groups like the EFF to tell spooky stories about a future of limited service bundles.
Ultimately as long as the infrastructure of the internet is privately owned, talk about making it more "neutral" is a feint. It should be a public utility, and AWS should be seized by force by the people. In my onion.
Comrade Joseph R(ed) Biden released an executive order last week to urge the FCC to bring net neutrality back.
It was a huge deal on Reddit because Reddit, as a link aggregator platform, had the most to lose from that kind of partitioning of the web. There are plenty of corporate interests in keeping the internet a big, dumb pipe for everyone (including from some of the most valued corporations in the world like Google). The stakes were thus somewhat overblown. ISPs are still vampires, but it was enough of a threat to internet businesses for nothing much to happen.
The larger danger is throttling, because ISPs do that when they can. For now, Biden has restored Net Neutrality, so the issue may hopefully be laid to rest.
Was at a mobile carrier and saw a sign on a table that shared their “commitment to net neutrality” :jokerfied:
